David CazaresSinger Dianne Reeves and saxophonist Branford Marsalis headline this year’s Twin Cities Jazz Festival. Read more →
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Among the Minnesotans who are making strong contributions to improvisational music is Duluth native Tom Matta, a trombonist, composer and arranger who teaches at DePaul University in Chicago. The Tom Matta Big Band’s recording “Components” was one of the notable albums from Minnesotans in 2013, with strong compositions, polished arrangements and artful solos. The tunes Read more →
With the end of the year comes the season of lists, among them expert recommendations for the best of jazz. I’m not sure I listened to enough music in the last 12 months to offer my picks for the most worthy jazz recordings nationwide, though I will say that saxophonist Wayne Shorter, singer Gregory Porter Read more →
With only a few weeks before St. Paul’s Artists’ Quarter closes its doors, jazz musicians in the Twin Cities plan a benefit this weekend to help raise money for owner Kenny Horst’s closing costs. Horst, a jazz drummer, announced in October that the club’s nights would come to an end on New Year’s Eve because Read more →
Anyone who knows singer Jana Nyberg won’t have to guess which season suits her best. An avid skater, skier and long-distance runner, she loves the winter. Read more →
Losing St. Paul’s Artists’ Quarter jazz club is devastating, says guitarist Zacc Harris. Read more →
Foreign Motion, a new jazz fusion ensemble with a diverse and international vibe, plays tonight and Saturday at St. Paul’s Artists’ Quarter. Read more →
Editor’s note: With the news that the Artists’ Quarter in St. Paul will shut its doors at the end of the year, we asked trumpeter Steve Kenny, a member of the acclaimed Twin Cities ensemble The Illicit Sextet to reflect on the club’s legacy and its troubles — and what its closing means for jazz Read more →
The Atlantis Quartet has been fusing genres since 2006. This weekend at St. Paul’s Artists Quarter, the group celebrates a much-anticipated fourth album. Read more →
My heart is a work in catastrophe, lens light of apathies closing in This city’s working out the best of me, can’t have what’s left of me This girl wants to see some brighter days, too many yesterdays with no sun I’d like to see how the story goes, see if the moral holds Can Read more →